Leon Marro

The University of Adelaide, Australia
Exchange to Tsinghua University, China

My exchange to China began when I was only nineteen years old. Leaving home and leaping into the unknown at the time seemed very exciting, but little did I know that my experience would be the complete opposite of what I thought it would be. As a result, there were many times when I became frustrated and at times I questioned my purpose of coming to China. But after a few months, I began to realize that China was trying to teach me something, something very important, and that thing was the other layers of life that Australia could not have taught me.

Aside from the fulfilling life experience, I have been fortunate enough to meet people from many different countries who have influenced me in many different ways. Their friendship and contact has shaped the person that I am now, and as never as before, I am finally becoming to understand my true self.

So, now is the month of April. I will return in less than three months to the family that I have not seen for more than eight months. I am actually looking forward to returning home, not because I have not enjoyed my experience here, but because I feel that I am ready to expand myself as an individual and to prepare myself for that one day when I will return to China again; and that time my purpose of going will be to show my greatest teacher – China – that I have learnt what it has taught me, and that I am willing to further experience what this wonderful country can provide me.

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